Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal, born 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, lives and works in Tarnów. Sasnal's distinctively pared-down painting style – often monochrome and reduced to stark contrasts – draws on a wide range of visual sources, from classic photography, comics, and advertising to album covers, history books, and online media. The artist transforms these materials through strategies of fragmentation, reduction, and painterly reinterpretation, creating images that feel simultaneously familiar and ambiguous. His works reflect both a deep engagement with contemporary culture and a critical awareness of its contradictions, offering condensed visual statements that resist straightforward reading. Beneath their surface simplicity, Sasnal’s paintings are dense with layered meaning – poetic reflections on how images shape, mirror, and distort our reality.
Untitled
2006
From Door Cycle
Screenprint (glossy black) on white painted wood door panel. Size: 200 x 90 x 4 cm (78¾ x 35½ x 1½ in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.
This edition by Wilhelm Sasnal presents a stark, glossy black screenprint of a serpent suspended from a taut cord, rendered on a white, painted wooden door panel. True to Sasnal’s signature visual language, the image is stripped down to its essential elements – minimal, quiet, and unsettling. The serpent, both symbolically charged and graphically isolated, hangs limply in a vertical format that emphasizes its vulnerability and ambiguity. At once enigmatic and charged with latent narrative, the piece typifies Sasnal’s ability to distill complex emotion and symbolism into a deceptively simple image.
EUR 8,000
